2000 | Resumed screen acting career with role in Woody Allen's "Small Time Crooks" |
2000 | Wrote the Broadway comedy "Taller Than a Dwarf" |
1998 | Returned to Off-Broadway as playwright and star (with daughter Berlin) of "Power Plays"; also co-starred opposite Alan Arkin |
1998 | Wrote "Primary Colors", directed by Nichols; earned second Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nomination |
1996 | Scripted Nichols-directed "The Birdcage", an Americanization of the French farce "La Cage aux folles" |
1991 | Wrote play, "Mr. Gogol and Mr. Preen", presented at the Mitzi E Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center |
1990 | Acted with daughter Berlin in "In the Spirit", co-scripted by Berlin; film also reteamed her with Falk |
1987 | Scripted and helmed "Ishtar", reteaming her with Beatty and Hoffman; also co-wrote songs |
1983 | Directed stage productions of "The Disappearance of the Jews", "Gorilla" and "Hotline", all at Chicago's Goodman Theatre |
1982 | Made uncredited contribution to the screenplay of "Tootsie", starring Dustin Hoffman |
1980 | Reunited with Nichols to co-star in stage production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut; Nichols had directed the 1966 movie version starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton |
1978 | Co-wrote the remake "Heaven Can Wait" with Warren Beatty (who produced, co-directed with Buck Henry and starred); received first Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay |
1978 | Reteamed with Walter Matthau as co-stars in one segment of Herbert Ross' "California Suite"; screenplay written by Neil Simon based on his play |
1976 | Third film, "Mikey and Nicky", starring Falk and John Cassavetes, taken away by studio (Paramount) when editing process dragged on; Paramount cut film and released it; a director's cut was later screened at the 1980 Toronto Film Festival |
1972 | Helmed "The Heartbreak Kid", adapted by Neil Simon from a Bruce Jay Friedman story; reportedly provided uncredited polish on script; daughter Jeannie Berlin played the part of the dumped spouse and earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination |
1971 | Wrote Otto Preminger's "Such Good Friends" under pseudonym Esther Dale; adapted from Lois Gould's novel |
1971 | Film writing and directing debut, "A New Leaf"; also starred opposite Walter Matthau as a terminally klutzy and unworldly botanist and heiress |
1969 | Wrote "Adaptation", performed Off-Broadway on double bill with Terrence McNally's "Next" under title "Adaptation-Next"; also directed |
1967 | Film acting debut in "Enter Laughing"; also acted in that year's "Luv", her first association with Peter Falk |
1964 | Stage directing debut, "The Third Ear" |
1962 | Off-Broadway debut as playwright, "Not Enough Rope"; also wrote "A Matter of Position", performed at Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre |
1962 | Ended creative partnership with Nichols |
1960 | Broadway debut in "An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May", directed by Arthur Penn |
1959 | Quit TV series "Laugh Line" (NBC) after three weeks |
| Was panelist on the CBS audience participation quiz show "Keep Talking" |
1957 | TV debut (with Nichols), "The Jack Parr Show" (NBC) |
1957 | Moved to NYC with Mike Nichols; began appearing in Greenwich Village nightclubs |
| Was member of the ground-breaking improvisational troupe, The Compass Players (members included Mike Nichols and Alan Arkin) |
| Settled in Chicago |
1942 | Moved to Los Angeles after death of father |
1938 | Worked as child radio actress |
1938 | Began appearing on stage in father's productions |
